Patents - Interdigital Technology Corporation and others v Lenovo Group Ltd. and others (Technical Trial C)
Author Interdigital Licence CC BY-SA 4.0 Source Wikimedia Commons Jane Lambert Patents Court (Mr Justice Mellor) Interdigital Technology Corp and others v Lenovo Group Ltd and others [ [2023] EWHC 172 (Pat) (31 Jan 2023) This was Mr Justice Mellor's judgment in Technical Trial "C". A technical trial is a proceeding to determine whether a patent is valid, essential to a technical standard and infringed. If it is then the owner of the patent can apply to the court for an injunction to restrain the infringement subject to an undertaking that he or she may have given to the standard-setting organization to grant any person wishing to implement the standard ("an implementer") a licence to do so on fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory ("FRAND") terms. If the patentee and implementer cannot agree those terms, there has to be a further trial (known as a "FRAND trial") in which the court will determine them. Related Litigation I hav